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Don’t stop the EV music

Electric Auto Association

His goal was to get 100,000 or more DIY conversion projects going,” agreed GEVA member Daniel Howard. He was promoting the benefits of EVs and how they compare with ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles and talking about living off the grid. Of course, this was while he was manufacturing and distributing parts for conversions.”.

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More Delays

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

Over the past few weeks I've been trying to contact the folks at Electro Automotive to get the status of the EV 914 kit. They finally responded last night and apparently they're completely buried under the demand for EV conversion kits. He got one of the earlier DC motor kits for the 914 from Electro Automotive.

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Battery Equalizer Schematics Rev 1.0

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

I'll have to modify the circuit with a voltage doubler in the final stage to work with 8-volt golf-cart batteries for the 914 EV kit. Big thanks to Max at and all the other supportive engineers at HP for designing this circuit. Any feedback on how to improve the circuit would be welcome.

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Talking with Mike at ElectroAuto

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

We chatted about the blown CCPower DC-DC converter and the engine vibrations. He also agreed to provide a new motor to flywheel coupler if I still had engine vibrations. Apparently I'm the only person with an operational AC kit currently, although several other people are hot on the trail to finishing theirs.

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Helsinki to host electric display of green cars

Green Cars News

In addition to the Roadster, a whole host of little electric cars will be exhibited at the fair alongside an array of electric scooter and quadricycles: Mega eCity, Mega Multitruck, E-Z-GO RXV (golf cart), Sanifer L7e, Sanifer L6e, Toyota Prius (Plug-in and Flexible-fuel technology models) and ZEV Seven.

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Closing up more loose ends.

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

One of the other 914 kit converters questioned why the accessory battery couldn't stay in the original tray, but I decided to remove it anyway and have the accessory battery up in the front trunk near the DC/DC converter. It's a pity that we have to remove this, but the size of the golf-cart batteries clearly interfere with the latch.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

April 10, 2009 2:28 pm Link Nothing pollutes more than the tailpipe of a internal combustion engine car. In most conversions cost is about the same because of needless weight. Wind, hydro, DC transmission lines, and smart grid electronics are also Portland strengths. Read more in this blog post: [link] — Gregory Hancock 5.

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